LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20100315443A1
• Filed: 11/06/2008
• Published: 12/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SK Innovation Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Fujioka, Kazuyoshi, Furukawa, Tomoo
• Application Number:
  US12/735,637
• Publication Number:
  US 20100315443A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/690
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133707 Structures for producing distorted electric fields, e.g. bumps, protrusions, recesses, slits in pixel electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2203/30 Gray scale
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2203/60 Temperature independent
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0252 Improving the response speed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0271 Adjustment of the gradation levels within the range of the gradation scale, e.g. by redistribution or clipping
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/041 Temperature compensation
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/16 Determination of a pixel data signal depending on the signal applied in the previous frame
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3648 using an active matrix G09G3/367 - G09G3/3696 take precedence

Abstract

A liquid crystal display device displays an image by using overshoot driving. In at least one embodiment, the liquid crystal display device includes: a temperature sensor measuring a surface temperature of a liquid crystal panel; a gradation conversion section performing a gradation value shift process of shifting inputted gradation values to lower gradation values; and a pseudo-multi-gradating section performing a pseudo-multi-gradating process on image data on which the gradation value shift process has been performed by the gradation conversion section. The gradation conversion section decides whether or not to perform the gradation value shift process depending on the surface temperature of the liquid crystal panel measured by the temperature sensor.

Claims

1. A liquid crystal display device displaying an image by using overshoot driving, comprising:

a temperature sensor measuring a surface temperature of a liquid crystal panel;

a gradation conversion section performing a gradation value shift process of shifting inputted gradation values to lower gradation values; and

a pseudo-multi-gradating section performing a pseudo-multi-gradating process on image data on which the gradation value shift process has been performed by the gradation conversion section,

the gradation conversion section deciding whether or not to perform the gradation value shift process depending on the surface temperature of the liquid crystal panel measured by the temperature sensor.

2. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein:

the gradation conversion section performs the gradation value shift process when the surface temperature of the liquid crystal panel measured by the temperature sensor is 0°

C. or below.

3. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1 further comprising:

a backlight irradiating the liquid crystal panel with light; and

a backlight driving section adjusting luminance of the light irradiated by the backlight,

wherein;

the backlight driving section adjusts the luminance of the light irradiated by the backlight so that irradiation luminance is higher when the gradation conversion section performs the gradation value shift process than when the gradation conversion section does not perform the gradation value shift process.

4. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, wherein:

the gradation conversion section performs the gradation value shift process of shifting the inputted gradation values to the lower gradation values while converting n-bit input image data (where n is an integer) into m-bit image data (where m is an integer) whose number of bits is larger than the number of bits of the n-bit input image data and outputting the m-bit image data; and

the pseudo-multi-gradating section performs a pseudo-multi-gradating process on the m-bit image data so as to output as n-bit image data.

5. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an overshoot calculation section performing an overshoot calculation on the image data on which the gradation value shift process has been performed by the gradation conversion section.

6. A method for driving a liquid crystal display device displaying an image by using overshoot driving, the liquid crystal display device including a temperature sensor measuring a surface temperature of a liquid crystal panel, the method comprising:

a gradation conversion step of deciding whether or not to perform a gradation value shift process for shifting inputted gradation values to lower gradation values depending on the surface temperature of the liquid crystal panel measured by the temperature sensor; and

a pseudo-multi-gradating step of performing a pseudo-multi-gradating process on an image data on which the gradation value shift process has been performed in the gradation conversion step.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein:

in the gradation conversion step, the gradation value shift process is performed when the surface temperature of the liquid crystal panel measured by the temperature sensor is 0°

C. or below.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein

the liquid crystal display device includes a backlight irradiating the liquid crystal panel with light, and

the method further comprises a backlight driving step of adjusting luminance of the light irradiated by the backlight,

the luminance of the light irradiated by the backlight being adjusted in the backlight driving step so that irradiation luminance of the light is higher when the gradation value shift process is performed in the gradation conversion step than when the gradation value shift process is not performed in the gradation conversion step.

9. The method according to claim 6, wherein:

in the gradation conversion step, n-bit input image data (where n is an integer) is converted into m-bit image data (where m is an integer) whose number of bits is larger than the number of bits of the n-bit input image data and the m-bit image data is outputted; and

in a case where the gradation value shift process is performed, the gradation value shift process of shifting the inputted gradation values to the lower gradation values is performed while converting the n-bit input image data into m-bit image data; and

in the pseudo-multi-gradating step, a pseudo-multi-gradating process is performed on the m-bit image data so as to output as n-bit image data.

10. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:

an overshoot calculation step of performing an overshoot calculation on the image data on which the gradation value shift process has been performed in the gradation conversion step.

11. A liquid crystal display device displaying an image by using overshoot driving, comprising:

a temperature sensor measuring a surface temperature of a liquid crystal panel;

a gradation conversion section performing a gradation value shift process of shifting inputted gradation values to lower gradation values;

a pseudo-multi-gradating section performing a pseudo-multi-gradating process on an image data on which the gradation value shift process has been performed by the gradation conversion section;

a backlight irradiating the liquid crystal panel with light; and

a backlight driving section adjusting luminance of the light irradiated by the backlight,

the gradation conversion section deciding whether or not to perform the gradation value shift process depending on the surface temperature of the liquid crystal panel measured by the temperature sensor, and

the backlight driving section adjusting the luminance of the light irradiated by the backlight so that irradiation luminance is higher when the gradation conversion section performs the gradation value shift process than when the gradation conversion section does not perform the gradation value shift process.